100 tiny poems

i remember you

the day i was born was the first day of my quest to discover why

#question #haiku

irresistible forces gather behind this event horizon

#singularity #haiku

this new dimension imprisoned in an instant this eternity

#manifold #haiku

i fear the unknown but courage has wisdom that fear can never know

#pivotal #haiku

i cannot exist without deciding what my existence will be

#conditional #haiku

this deep entrapment is simply my position not my destiny

#antifatalist #haiku

do not postpone joy to earn your reward because the joy is the thing

#teleological #haiku

every masterpiece begins with a blank canvas and an opinion

#biased #haiku

better hard to love than easy to abandon brutal poetry

#reductive #haiku

they all will hurt you you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for

#dread #haiku

fear taught man to shape dark howling winter into the dog at his hearth

#catalytic #haiku

how consequential that very awkward moment between birth and death

#parenthetical #haiku

every hero fears that some rapt admirer will learn the awful truth

#fraudulent #haiku

these afternoon friends even my shadow leaves me when darkness descends

#midnight #haiku

the trail to failure is efficiently blazed by the footprints of fools

#navigational #haiku

optimism says poverty is relative but fear knows better

#gaslit #haiku

the mob is ready to fight madly in defense of its own mistakes

#groupthink #haiku

i judged you by the content of your character but it didn't help

#taboo #haiku

i perished because i followed the example of another man

#derivative #haiku

it can be harmful to follow the march of those who go before us

#generational #haiku

i live every day but i will only die once better make it count

#curtain #haiku

i wasted my time on trivial things and now time has wasted me

#wastrel #haiku

modesty perished when shameful idleness was dignified instead

#shameless #haiku

my animal mind squanders high virtue as a handmaid to pleasure

#carnal #haiku

i carried mountains until i learned i was just supposed to climb them

#overburdened #haiku

who has more masters than the slave whom the vulgar call a happy man

#vulgar #haiku

a heart grown bitter is a burden to itself love has no place there

#grievance #haiku

death and dishonor are the only compass points on this battlefield

#chrysanthemum #haiku

our hopeful souls went marching to the fields of fate in the slanting rain

#october #haiku

my bayonet seeks a heart also crafted in the image of god

#imago #haiku

pleading in silence blood into mud into dust is how all men die

#dustbound #haiku

machine gun bullets are the ready messengers of tyrants and fools

#ballistic #haiku

artillery reaps a bumper crop of corpses under brutal rain

#indirect #haiku

hold fast to my arm and i will carry you home or we will die here

#shellhole #haiku

this queer sibilance this dread swarming menace of iron on the wing

#fatal #haiku

the glory of war drowns the shrieks of the wounded in lethal moonshine

#shermanic #haiku

widows and orphans run steaming down the leg of glorious combat

#glorified #haiku

making love not war is sure to irritate the other warriors

#tactical #haiku

what is more lofty than for a hundred men to march forward to death

#jackboot #haiku

i remind myself that i am not descended from cowardly men

#trenchwhistle #haiku

the frontal assault is an expensive approach to a machine gun

#maneuver #haiku

resume bullets may read differently at the threshold of heaven

#bardo #haiku

clumps of red clover wound my golden shroud across these teeming meadows

#battlefield #haiku

the guns fall silent and i can see a girl with laughter in her eyes

#twilight #haiku

fight monsters with care lest you become the object you seek to destroy

#abyss #haiku

confronting myself it helps to remember that i am a liar

#compromised #haiku

i have to learn how to get up from a table where love is not served

#complicit #haiku

i am more likely to fool myself than i am anybody else

#betrayal #haiku

this fear of failure if left unchecked will lead to the failure i fear

#feedback #haiku

i might perceive things correctly then act rightly and fail anyway

#sisyphean #haiku

my beloved is not the only reaper who stalks this battlefield

#romanticidal #haiku

by a certain point this promenade is more like kicking through wreckage

#cumulative #haiku

if my enemy knew me more deeply she would hate me even more

#calculated #haiku

i conquer my fear by submitting daily to its bitter wisdom

#budo #haiku

i fight to the mat so that when there is no mat i will not have to

#prophylactic #haiku

seize the offensive because no other option will carry the day

#decisive #haiku

the way to predict the future with precision is to create it

#insider #haiku

either my riches serve my ends or i am a slave to my riches

#mastery #haiku

creativity thrives in environments of rigid discipline

#disciplined #haiku

as necessity spawns invention so constraint begets creation

#constrained #haiku

every quality required by this adversity will serve me for life

#forged #haiku

i am rewarded in public for the things i practice in private

#backstage #haiku

if i just practice every step ten thousand times my luck will find me

#grinder #haiku

the price of a thing is the quantity of life i exchange for it

#mercantile #haiku

whatever i have i will neither hoard in greed nor squander it

#stewardship #haiku

i may win the game but only if i dare roll the dice in my hand

#courageous #haiku

i just realized this obstacle in my path is a catapult

#leverage #haiku

my resourcefulness is a more useful resource than my resources

#antifragile #haiku

when everyone else around me cries disaster i will press forward

#defiant #haiku

the task before me is to turn this misfortune to my advantage

#judo #haiku

this adversity is my chance to demonstrate my best behavior

#dignified #haiku

the root of courage is a simple acceptance of the job at hand

#trench #haiku

there are no heroes there is only this awful noble decision

#whistle #haiku

my buddha nature stands in opposition to my buddha nature

#egotistical #haiku

i will not give in to this adversity nor trust prosperity

#untouchable #haiku

death is patient but nothing cheats the reaper like deciding to live

#ithican #haiku

i opened my eyes and atop this barricade saw lights for my way

#breakthrough #haiku

that wolf from my door is nose to tail beside the fire in my belly

#feral #haiku

the buddha i am is not the same buddha as the buddha in me

#monkey #haiku

my inner vision can never be obstructed only relinquished

#conserved #haiku

a happy life is lived in perfect accordance with its own nature

#alignment #haiku

to find a moment of gratitude is to pick from the tree of grace

#grace #haiku

my soul infuses each weapon i bring to bear and those i lay down

#sheathed #haiku

this raw turbulence i match with the calmness i cultivate within

#zazen #haiku

i kiss your shoreline no matter how frequently you send me away

#obsessive #haiku

i sing my joy but only the mountain knows the language of the wolf

#lupine #haiku

her indifference throws milky luminance across my riven towers

#moonlit #haiku

i contemplate the marvel of existence and rejoice that i can

#miraculous #haiku

to be truly loved for the space of just one breath changes everything

#irreversible #haiku

i am most homesick over places and people i have never known

#hiraeth #haiku

my destiny is attracted to the person i am becoming

#magnetic #haiku

my heart throbs in time between two eras of love refuting breakage

#liminal #haiku

in a split instant i recognized you as though years were just yardsticks

#minkowski #haiku

a lifetime of light contributes but a flicker to the vasty dark

#gothic #haiku

at my happiest i do not break my back to strive for happiness

#exhalation #haiku

the brighter the flame the briefer the instant but i remember you

#memorial #haiku

kiss me while you can because we are not getting out of this alive

#ephemeral #haiku

no one like me has ever existed and i cannot be replaced

#precious #haiku

at the end of time as the cosmos unravels my soul will know yours

#eschatological #haiku

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